The glass bowl was a repeated theme in a number of my artworks. The image of a beluga whale from the Vancouver Aquarium was inserted into the photograph of the bowl in the raking light of a living room on a cottage on Bell Lake, Gatineau, Quebec. During that period I had a dream that I was swimming very close to a whale, so close that all I could see was its enormous eye looking at me in a protective way, guiding me through the waters. So powerful was its regard, that I didn't have to swim, I was propelled by its proximity and force.